Excerpt from Battle Days
This book is not a sequel to 'Gog' in the ordinary sense of the word, because none of the same characters are involved, but it is nevertheless a continuation of that story. In 'Gog' I presented a picture of war as it worked around the individual. In the present work I have tried to give a picture of war, also true, but on very much ampler lines, including the doings of soldiers of all ranks and arms, both on their military and human side. The endeavour has been to create progressively such a series of situations as would fairly represent modern war as I have seen it, in its many workings and phases, these situations being accompanied by such indications of the methods of battle-control and connection as would to some extent at least visualise the way in which things happen, the extraordinary difficulties of war, and the reasons, through accident, casualties, and otherwise, why things that ought to, often don't happen. The task is obviously an extremely difficult one on account of the vast complexity of modern war and its innumerable technicalities, but I hope the result may prove interesting to some.
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